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Lionel Trilling

"There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination."

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Donna Grant

"What the future held for spirit, Emily could only imagine."

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Donna Grant

"Do you know what the best and worst thing about a book is? The author can't answer all your questions, only your imagination can."

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Donna Grant

"When you are very rational, you may not be able to dream or live in a fairy tale."

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Donna Grant

"O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. . . .She is the fairies' midwife, and she comesIn shape no bigger than an agate stoneOn the forefinger of an alderman,Drawn with a team of little atomiAthwart men's noses as they lie asleep."

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Donna Grant

"The words we construct, the poems we write and the songs we sing, become the love story of a stranger we have never seen."

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Donna Grant

"Music enables mind to compose things in the outer limit of logic."

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Donna Grant

"When the imagination takes over, the second hand could be the hour hand to a creator of stories."

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Donna Grant

"With astonishing wonder, I have seen the magic of life, the power of thoughts, and the beauty of imagination."

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Donna Grant

"Too many questions can cripple imagination, for how can you apply logical questions to something that is not real?"

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Donna Grant

"We are blessed with a finite life, but our imaginations are infinite."

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Lionel Trilling
"What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have."

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Lionel Trilling
"The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy."

Writing

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Lionel Trilling
"It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief."

Life

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Lionel Trilling
"This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking."

Creativity

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Lionel Trilling
"The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive."

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Lionel Trilling
"We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian."

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Lionel Trilling
"Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over."

Time

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Lionel Trilling
"It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it."

Psychology

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Lionel Trilling
"Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal."

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Lionel Trilling
"The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather."

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